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  1. Re:Apache called themselves Indians before Euros c on Legal Online Gambling Could Return To the US (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it even true the CC thought he had found India, like the world is flat thing? I think your explanation that it was a variation on an Native term makes more sense. I grew up in NJ and Native words are used everywhere for place names and even businesses (like Wawa)

  2. Not to mention the enormous amounts of information that is available to programmers in ENGLISH.

  3. Re:Jargon has a place, but not Wikipedia on 'Maybe Wikipedia Readers Shouldn't Need Science Degrees To Digest Articles About Basic Topics' (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    Explaining electroweak force without using any physics 'jargon' would take a thick book.

  4. Because their idea of 'research only' is really high school level. Not to mention with a subject like chemistry you don't memorize every physical aspect of a molecule. We used to use the Merck index for that but it is easier to just google it now.

  5. I don't know how many times i have used wikipedia to find out some arcane information to help my kids with high school chemistry or physics, which is kind of the level that I find for those subjects on wikipedia. I think the 'just for researchers' is hyperbole on the part of the OP.

  6. So punish the 90% who can use the information for the 10% who are 'just curious'. Frankly I don't care if the general public understands what electroweak interaction is. If they really want to know they have to do the heavy lifting needed to understand something. BTW I don't think electroweak interaction or graphene are 'basic topics' whether they are in the news or not.

  7. Re:Their app reads your contacts... on How Facebook Outs Sex Workers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Umm yeah. It would seem easier if people en-masse tell face-#$%& to -#$%&-off.

  8. Re:Comprehension on How Facebook Outs Sex Workers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Kind of like the way linkedin tries to get you to 'invite' people.

  9. Re: The real problem is on How Facebook Outs Sex Workers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Decriminalization would put a damper on people dating and marrying out of sexual frustration and in the long term improve relationships for those that are looking for one.

  10. Re:The left is more complex than you think on How Facebook Outs Sex Workers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    A small minority would. You could say the same thing about libertarian leaning conservatives.

  11. Re:The real problem is on How Facebook Outs Sex Workers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    For the right it's a religious issue for the left they don't like it because it puts a ceiling on the cost/aggravation men will put up with for sex.

  12. Re:Environmentalists make California burn on Google Will Hit 100 Percent Renewable Energy This Year (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    If you compare Ansel Adams photographs with how the places look now, they have become completely overgrown mostly due to fire suppression methods. These extra trees have a lot of down stream effects on the watershed.

  13. Re:I agree - moon first on Vice President Pence Vows US Astronauts Will Return To the Moon (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    I like Mercury better, there is water in the polar craters and with the solar energy differentials between light and dark tons of power

  14. Re: Slashdot Died when CmdrTaco Left on 20 Years of Stuff That Matters · · Score: 1

    I realized from the start this place was shithole.

  15. Re: Slashdot Died when CmdrTaco Left on 20 Years of Stuff That Matters · · Score: 0

    Right. And I am sure the opposition told 100% the truth and laid out all the facts. It's politics, it's dirty get over it.

  16. Couldn't they have 50k people take orders on the phone and write down the orders on paper pads? Why the website?

  17. It's a Shitty Website on 20 Years of Stuff That Matters · · Score: 1

    It's a shitty website but the alternatives are worse!

  18. Re:And they are repairable! on The ThinkPad At 25 (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    always a ton of parts and off lease laptops on ebay

  19. That's bullshit too. We rode the wave of the rest of the worlds factories being destroyed after WWII for a couple decades.

  20. I doubt they are better than my 60$ craigslist klipschs

  21. Re:Was religious belief a covered demographic? on Unselfish People Are More Likely to Wind Up With Depression (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Ideally religion abstracts it's believers from ideas of fairness and that one should do things for others without expecting something in return. (at lest that is what is taught, YMMV with dealings with actual religious people)

  22. Re:Note UNFAIR ... on Unselfish People Are More Likely to Wind Up With Depression (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Or maybe you realize there is no such thing as fair. Obviously there is some happy medium between being obsessed with fairness and a selfish asshole.

  23. Re:Comparing yourself to others never wins on Unselfish People Are More Likely to Wind Up With Depression (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You aren't helping anyone if you are depressed all the time. A certain amount of self-love is needed to actually love others.

  24. It's a bad argument on The Absurdity of the Nobel Prizes in Science (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Should they put the name of the guys working at the power plant who supplied LIGO with power? The guys who championed LIGO have spent the last 40 years, basically their entire professional lives on something that could have been a complete dud. There is some value in that....

  25. Re:I could never skip breakfast on Skipping Breakfast May Be Linked To Poor Heart Health, Study Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Too sweet. Vodka and bacon works for me.